Morning Kisses

I am in love with your soul,
the way you drew me in.
I swear I had met you from another life.
The way our minds dance together like only lovers know.
The way our breaths intertwine as you suck in and i breathe out.
Your eyes meet me halfway every time and your shape.
It somehow perfectly wraps around mine
ignoring the fact that,
its just like mine.
The way I can sense you're around without having to look.
Your sweet sweet morning kisses.
How my lips crave them even before I'm awake and
your warmth seems to find mine in the depths of our unconsciousness.

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Editor’s Note

The number one question our editors receive is—what do the editors and judges look for when judging the contest? The number one answer we give is creativity. Unlike prose, writing composed in everyday language, poetry is considered a creative art and requires a different type of effort and a certain level of depth. Of the thousands of poems entered in each contest, the ones that catch our judges’ eyes are the ones that remove us, even just slightly, from the scope of everyday life by using language that is interesting, specific, vivid, obscure, compelling, figurative, and so on. Oftentimes, poems are pulled aside for a second look based simply on certain words that intrigued the reader. So first and foremost, be sure your poetry is written using creative language. Take general ideas and make them personal. In his infamous book De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong, W. D. Snodgrass imparts, “We cannot honestly discuss or represent our lives, any more than our poems, without using ideational language.”